Administrative Information

Access

There are no restrictions.

Publication Rights/ Restrictions on Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred Citation

Edward Thorne Arithmetic Book, Manuscript # MS 80.3.1, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1930.

Alternative Form

Microfilm copy (M-1585) available.

Scope and Content Information

This manuscript arithmetic book contains explanations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; addition and subtraction of money; eighteenth-century weights and measures; time; and reduction of fractions. Problems and solutions are included. It is probably not of Virginia origin; it might possibly be from another American colony, but it is more likely from England.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Arithmetic --Early works to 1900.
• Mathematics --Study and teaching --England --History --18th Century.
• Money --England --History --18th Century.
• Penmanship.
• Weights and measures --England --History --18th Century.